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Oakland city officials including Mayor Libby Schaaf, right, city administrator Sabrina Landreth, second from right, and police chief Anne Kirkpatrick, at podium, field questions after a federal court hearing, Monday, July 10, 2017, in San Francisco. Civil rights lawyers say a federal judge should consider holding Oakland, California, city and police officials in contempt of court for mishandling an internal affairs investigation of several officers alleged to have sexually exploited an underage prostitute. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Judge: Oakland must show plan for fixing police department

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The Latest: Federal judge optimistic for Oakland police

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Feds override California to aid inmates with drug overdoses

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FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2010 file photo, a massive fire roars through a neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif. California's largest utility must pay a $3 million fine and run thousands of TV commercials publicizing its pipeline safety violations as punishment for its criminal convictions in a deadly natural gas explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area. U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson sentenced Pacific Gas &amp; Electric Co. on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017. In addition to the fine and advertising requirement, he required PG&amp;E employees to perform 10,000 hours of community service. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

California utility must run ads over deadly blast conviction

By SUDHIN THANAWALA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2010 file photo, a massive fire roars through a neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif. Pacific Gas &amp; Electric Co. says it is prepared to pay the maximum fine of $3 million after a jury convicted the company of deliberately violating pipeline safety regulations before a deadly natural gas pipeline explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area and then misleading investigators looking into the blast. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Judge postpones sentencing of PG&E in case tied to blast

By SUDHIN THANAWALA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2010 file photo, a massive fire roars through a neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif. Pacific Gas &amp; Electric Co. says it is prepared to pay the maximum fine of $3 million after a jury convicted the company of deliberately violating pipeline safety regulations before a deadly natural gas pipeline explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area and then misleading investigators looking into the blast. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

The Latest: Judge postpones sentencing of utility in blast

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FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2010 file photo, a massive fire roars through a neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif. Pacific Gas &amp; Electric Co. says it is prepared to pay the maximum fine of $3 million after a jury convicted the company of deliberately violating pipeline safety regulations before a deadly natural gas pipeline explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area and then misleading investigators looking into the blast. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Judge postpones sentencing of PG&E in case tied to blast

By SUDHIN THANAWALA - Associated Press

U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson pets his dog Missy while interviewed in his chambers in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. Henderson, the first African-American attorney in the Justice Department's civil rights division, says he knows there will be more civil rights battles under the Trump administration, but at 83, he no longer has the energy to fight them. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Federal judge who pushed rights of prisoners, gays retiring

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Judge fires Oakland police compliance director

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